The purpose of this study is to give a deeper understanding of Anna Sewell’s argumentation for a changed view on animals in her book Black Beauty and Sewell’s contribution to the animal welfare debate. The questions addressed in the study is: What arguments does Sewell present for a changed view on animals? What contemporary assumptions does Sewell challenge? Against what contemporary assumptions does her argument become effective? To answer these questions the material that are examined is Sewell’s book Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse (1877), first published in England. The theoretical perspective is that the book’s influence on the debate only is effective through two factors which is Sewell’s argumentation and the contemporary conditions that affected her way of arguing. These two factors become effective through interaction. The method used is a rhetorical analysis because it takes hold on text and context. Prior research has found through their perspective that the horses in Sewell’s book represent humans. But this study argues that the horses in Sewell’s book represent horses and that the book argues for a change in the way human’s attitude towards animals. The analysis in this study shows that Sewell’s argumentation can be divided into four categories of the contemporary ethics and context’s: Christianity, socialism, critique off fashion and machine. The conclusion drawn from the study is that Sewells arguments for a changed view on animals is based on these four categories where she must argue with and against them.

Atenta a categorias poéticas em uso no fim do século XIX, esta dissertação de mestrado estuda algumas das escolhas efetuadas pelo poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío (1867-1916) na busca de satisfazer e, ao mesmo tempo, alargar as exigências diversas de seus leitores contemporâneos. Identificam-se o artifício e a versatilidade como elementos fundamentais pelos quais o poeta obteve o apreço de seu público. O capítulo I expõe brevemente o estado atual da recepção à poesia de Darío para, então, investigar as origens do processo de constituição histórica de sua autoridade poética, ocupando-se sobretudo de algumas questões que nortearam a sua primeira recepção tanto na América como na Europa. No capítulo II, estudam-se duas categorias relevantes para uma compreensão histórica dessa poesia: elegância (preceito representativo adequado à inserção da poesia nas práticas cultas e ultracivilizadas do fim do século XIX) e harmonia (elemento de estilo que operava não só no nível fônico, na beleza sonora, como também na sintaxe, na metáfora, na métrica, na versificação, na escolha dos temas e assuntos etc.). No capítulo III, a análise de poemas selecionados procura demonstrar a pertinência do recorte proposto pela identificação de usos da elegância e da harmonia em três gêneros diversos praticados por Darío: o elogio, a epístola em verso e as \"visões\", relacionadas mais intimamente com a poética chamada simbolista. O capítulo IV aborda criticamente a noção de musicalidade, buscando ampliá-la para explicar uma série de procedimentos e técnicas pelas quais se poderão diferenciar com mais clareza as escolhas autorais e os elementos comuns às poéticas vigentes em seu tempo. / Taking into account the poetical categories in use at the end of the 19th century, this dissertation examines some of the options chosen and worked by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) in order to satisfy and, at the same time, expand the diverse demands of his contemporary readers. We have centered upon artifice and versatility as key elements by which the poet managed to receive his public\'s applause. Chapter I begins with the current state of the reception of Darío\'s poetry in order to investigate the origins of the process of a historical constitution of his poetical authority, focusing mainly on certain issues which lay on the base of his first reception in America as well as in Europe. In chapter II, we have studied two relevant categories for a historical comprehension of this poetry: elegance (a representative precept appropriate to the insertion of poetry into the refined and ultra-civilized practices of the late 1800s) and harmony (an element of style which operated not only for the phonic level of poetry, for the sonorous beauty, but also for syntax, for metaphor, metrics, versification, choice of themes and subjects, etc.). In chapter III, the analysis of selected poems aims at unveiling the relevance of our methodology through identifying the uses of elegance and harmony in three diverse genres practiced by Darío: the laudatory, the epistles in verse, and the \"visions\", related more closely to the poetics called by the name of \"symbolist\". Chapter IV deals critically with the notion of musicality, expanding it in order to explain a series of procedures and techniques through which we are able to differentiate more clearly between personal choices and the elements which were common to the poetical practices of the poet\'s time.

Atenta a categorias poéticas em uso no fim do século XIX, esta dissertação de mestrado estuda algumas das escolhas efetuadas pelo poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío (1867-1916) na busca de satisfazer e, ao mesmo tempo, alargar as exigências diversas de seus leitores contemporâneos. Identificam-se o artifício e a versatilidade como elementos fundamentais pelos quais o poeta obteve o apreço de seu público. O capítulo I expõe brevemente o estado atual da recepção à poesia de Darío para, então, investigar as origens do processo de constituição histórica de sua autoridade poética, ocupando-se sobretudo de algumas questões que nortearam a sua primeira recepção tanto na América como na Europa. No capítulo II, estudam-se duas categorias relevantes para uma compreensão histórica dessa poesia: elegância (preceito representativo adequado à inserção da poesia nas práticas cultas e ultracivilizadas do fim do século XIX) e harmonia (elemento de estilo que operava não só no nível fônico, na beleza sonora, como também na sintaxe, na metáfora, na métrica, na versificação, na escolha dos temas e assuntos etc.). No capítulo III, a análise de poemas selecionados procura demonstrar a pertinência do recorte proposto pela identificação de usos da elegância e da harmonia em três gêneros diversos praticados por Darío: o elogio, a epístola em verso e as \"visões\", relacionadas mais intimamente com a poética chamada simbolista. O capítulo IV aborda criticamente a noção de musicalidade, buscando ampliá-la para explicar uma série de procedimentos e técnicas pelas quais se poderão diferenciar com mais clareza as escolhas autorais e os elementos comuns às poéticas vigentes em seu tempo. / Taking into account the poetical categories in use at the end of the 19th century, this dissertation examines some of the options chosen and worked by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) in order to satisfy and, at the same time, expand the diverse demands of his contemporary readers. We have centered upon artifice and versatility as key elements by which the poet managed to receive his public\'s applause. Chapter I begins with the current state of the reception of Darío\'s poetry in order to investigate the origins of the process of a historical constitution of his poetical authority, focusing mainly on certain issues which lay on the base of his first reception in America as well as in Europe. In chapter II, we have studied two relevant categories for a historical comprehension of this poetry: elegance (a representative precept appropriate to the insertion of poetry into the refined and ultra-civilized practices of the late 1800s) and harmony (an element of style which operated not only for the phonic level of poetry, for the sonorous beauty, but also for syntax, for metaphor, metrics, versification, choice of themes and subjects, etc.). In chapter III, the analysis of selected poems aims at unveiling the relevance of our methodology through identifying the uses of elegance and harmony in three diverse genres practiced by Darío: the laudatory, the epistles in verse, and the \"visions\", related more closely to the poetics called by the name of \"symbolist\". Chapter IV deals critically with the notion of musicality, expanding it in order to explain a series of procedures and techniques through which we are able to differentiate more clearly between personal choices and the elements which were common to the poetical practices of the poet\'s time.

The purpose of this essay was to study how people could react to the changes of the society and modernization during the 1800s. The study is based on a qualitative method and the material for this study has been letters that belong to a peasantry family from Sunne, Värmland in Sweden. The purpose with this case studie has been to find out what the letter says about peoples experiences and conditions during the modernization. In this studie the theory of modernization has been limited to geographical mobility and individualism in purpose to see how the correspondent writes about these modern phenomenon. The results show a collectivistic character, but also how the modernization and geographical mobility challenge this concept. The letters also show a interaction between the  character of the peasant society and modernization.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the patients who were cared for at Stockholm's psychiatric hospital during three periods in history: 1890–1895, 1905–1910 and 1920–1925. The variables examined in the statistical part of the essay are the number of newly admitted patients per period and the diagnoses these people receive. The second part of the essay takes a closer look at how patients from different payment classes are described in the application documents. The focus has been on compiling positively and negatively value-laden words to see which and how many words are used and whether there are differences between the different classes and genders. Another class aspect that has been investigated is how daily life in the hospital has differed between the classes.           The findings show that the number of patients per year is constantly increasing. There is only a small change between the first and the second survey period, from 1910 until and during the years 1920–1925, an enormous change takes place. Many people in the country are in line to be admitted to a hospital, which means that patients who are not judged as seriously ill or as a danger to themselves and others are discharged at a high rate. The diagnostic system undergoes several changes during the examined period, which makes it difficult to follow individual diagnoses over time.           The discourse analysis of the application documents shows that the men in the first class were the ones who were given by far the best reviews, both by relatives and by the chief physician. The focus was on their intelligence and good mood. First-class women also generally received good marks, but they commented more on her calmness and dignity, completely in line with the bourgeois ideal that prevailed then. Third-class patients did not enjoy the same amount of positive words at all. Their bodies and ability to work arouse the most interest in the doctor and the amount of information about their background is less. Everyday life also separates the classes. Tasks, leisure activities and food are adapted to the classes' previous lives to facilitate care and read justment to society, which means that in the first class you devote a lot of time to reading and writing, while in the third class you work with the physical operation of the hospital. The food would also mimic the one you were used to before, which meant that the food for first class was more than twice as expensive per person per day compared to the food you ate in third class.

Ao longo do século XIX luso-brasileiro, a biografia do poeta Luís Vaz de Camões emerge, reiteradas vezes, como matéria central de textos ficcionais pertencentes a gêneros literários diversos. No Portugal de Oitocentos, a constatação do estado de decadência da pátria lusitana, aliada a um desejo de restauração da grandeza nacional, resulta na retomada da figura de Camões como símbolo do saudoso passado imperial, cuja glória busca-se recuperar. No Brasil recém-independente, recriações literárias da biografia do poeta classicista português assinalam o estabelecimento de uma complexa relação entre as letras nacionais e as matrizes culturais europeias. A análise dos textos literários selecionados procura integrar, sob a perspectiva do comparatismo literário, os respectivos textos, autores e gêneros ao eixo unificador dos procedimentos ficcionais que configuram a tradição das ressonâncias biográficas camonianas. O diálogo entre literatura e história permite acompanhar a participação ativa de autores e obras em contextos histórico-culturais específicos, mas inter-relacionados. As relações entre ficção e biografia, por sua vez, apontam para a configuração de universos ficcionais a partir de elementos biográficos, com os quais devido à liberdade criadora do fazer artístico e às influências das ideologias e do imaginário , os artistas operam. O recorte observacional da pesquisa se insere, em grande medida, no arco temporal do período romântico, tendo início em 1825, com o poema inaugural do Romantismo português (Camões, de Almeida Garrett), e se estendendo até as comemorações do tricentenário da morte de Camões, em 1880 (ano em que vêm a público peças de Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim e Machado de Assis). No caso de Portugal, a década de 1870 já testemunha o desenvolvimento dos ideais estéticos do Realismo, com implicações sobre a própria configuração do culto a Luís Vaz de Camões, trabalhado ficcional e criticamente por Camilo Castelo Branco. De todo modo, no Brasil e em Portugal, entre os anos de 1825 e 1880, pode ser observado um tratamento específico da figura de Camões, inicialmente idealizada segundo os valores românticos (a exemplo de peças escritas por Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho), em um processo que conduz à consolidação definitiva do mito camoniano em dois países ligados, ao mesmo tempo, pelo passado colonial e por uma tradição cultural comum. / Throughout the Portuguese-Brazilian 19th century, the biography of the poet Luís Vaz de Camões emerges, repeated times, as the main topic of fictional texts belonging to different literary genres. In the Portugal of the 1800s , the assumption of the decaying state of the Portuguese nation, together with the restauration of the national greatness, reclaims Camoes as the symbol of a lost past, whose glory they aim to resurrect. In the recently independent Brazil, literary recreations of the classical Portuguese poets biography denote the establishment of a complex relation in what concerns the national letters and the cultural European matrixes. The analysis of the selected literary texts has the intention of integrating, under the perspective of literary comparatism, texts, authors and genre to the unifying axels of the fictional procedures that represent the tradition of the biographical resonance related to Camoes. The dialogue between Literature and History, on the other hand, leads to the designing of the fictional universes originated from the biographical elements, with which due to the creative freedom of the artistic action and to the influences of the ideologies and of the imaginary-, the artist works. The observational cut of the research is set, to a great extent, at the temporal period of the Romantic period, starting in 1825, with the inaugural poem of the Portuguese Romanticism (Camões, by Almeida Garrett) , up to the celebrations of the third centenary of Camoes death, in 1880 (being this the year when plays by Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim and Machado de Assis become known to the public). In what concerns Portugal, the 1870s are witnesses to the development of esthetical ideals of the Realism, with consequences to the configuration of the worship of Luís Vaz de Camões, used fictional and critically by Camilo Castelo Branco. Therefore, both in Brazil and Portugal, between 1825 and 1880, a specific treatment of Camoess image could be observed, initially idealized according to the Romantic values (plays written by Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho are examples), in a process that takes us to the definite consolidation of the myth towards Camoes in two countries connected by the colonial past and a common cultural tradition , as well.

This essay is a business history about the Swedish midsized tobacco company J A Boman & Co, previously Ferd Körner and Körner & Boman, which was part of the blooming tobacco industry in Sweden during the 19th century.  One purpose of the essay is to fill a gap within both business history in general and the study of tobacco companies in particular, since they both tend to favor studies on larger companies. The other purpose is to find a methodological way to study a smaller sized, older company with very few sources from the actual company. The essay seeks to answer questions about the company’s production history and how it changed over the years. The study takes use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the company and how it developed over time. It is not an essay deeply embedded in theory, it rather seeks to use different theoretical approaches. One approach is a micro level macro theory, that claims that a company only can be understood through the macro level and that the company, itself being the micro level, can deliver exciting new findings that creates a deeper understanding for the macro level. Throughout the essay, the company’s production statistics are examined, and combined with newspaper articles, letters and previous academic works within the field, the essay closes in on answers to the questions that were introduced in the beginning. The examination of the company finds that the midsized company managed to survive through adaptability to its time and circumstances. The company chose to sell their products through merchants instead of directly to the consumers, unlike most of the other tobacco companies at the time. The methodological problem, which was part of the essay’s purpose, was resolved by the combined method described earlier in the abstract, although the essay would admittedly have been better if there had been some papers left from the examined company.

Ao longo do século XIX luso-brasileiro, a biografia do poeta Luís Vaz de Camões emerge, reiteradas vezes, como matéria central de textos ficcionais pertencentes a gêneros literários diversos. No Portugal de Oitocentos, a constatação do estado de decadência da pátria lusitana, aliada a um desejo de restauração da grandeza nacional, resulta na retomada da figura de Camões como símbolo do saudoso passado imperial, cuja glória busca-se recuperar. No Brasil recém-independente, recriações literárias da biografia do poeta classicista português assinalam o estabelecimento de uma complexa relação entre as letras nacionais e as matrizes culturais europeias. A análise dos textos literários selecionados procura integrar, sob a perspectiva do comparatismo literário, os respectivos textos, autores e gêneros ao eixo unificador dos procedimentos ficcionais que configuram a tradição das ressonâncias biográficas camonianas. O diálogo entre literatura e história permite acompanhar a participação ativa de autores e obras em contextos histórico-culturais específicos, mas inter-relacionados. As relações entre ficção e biografia, por sua vez, apontam para a configuração de universos ficcionais a partir de elementos biográficos, com os quais devido à liberdade criadora do fazer artístico e às influências das ideologias e do imaginário , os artistas operam. O recorte observacional da pesquisa se insere, em grande medida, no arco temporal do período romântico, tendo início em 1825, com o poema inaugural do Romantismo português (Camões, de Almeida Garrett), e se estendendo até as comemorações do tricentenário da morte de Camões, em 1880 (ano em que vêm a público peças de Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim e Machado de Assis). No caso de Portugal, a década de 1870 já testemunha o desenvolvimento dos ideais estéticos do Realismo, com implicações sobre a própria configuração do culto a Luís Vaz de Camões, trabalhado ficcional e criticamente por Camilo Castelo Branco. De todo modo, no Brasil e em Portugal, entre os anos de 1825 e 1880, pode ser observado um tratamento específico da figura de Camões, inicialmente idealizada segundo os valores românticos (a exemplo de peças escritas por Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho), em um processo que conduz à consolidação definitiva do mito camoniano em dois países ligados, ao mesmo tempo, pelo passado colonial e por uma tradição cultural comum. / Throughout the Portuguese-Brazilian 19th century, the biography of the poet Luís Vaz de Camões emerges, repeated times, as the main topic of fictional texts belonging to different literary genres. In the Portugal of the 1800s , the assumption of the decaying state of the Portuguese nation, together with the restauration of the national greatness, reclaims Camoes as the symbol of a lost past, whose glory they aim to resurrect. In the recently independent Brazil, literary recreations of the classical Portuguese poets biography denote the establishment of a complex relation in what concerns the national letters and the cultural European matrixes. The analysis of the selected literary texts has the intention of integrating, under the perspective of literary comparatism, texts, authors and genre to the unifying axels of the fictional procedures that represent the tradition of the biographical resonance related to Camoes. The dialogue between Literature and History, on the other hand, leads to the designing of the fictional universes originated from the biographical elements, with which due to the creative freedom of the artistic action and to the influences of the ideologies and of the imaginary-, the artist works. The observational cut of the research is set, to a great extent, at the temporal period of the Romantic period, starting in 1825, with the inaugural poem of the Portuguese Romanticism (Camões, by Almeida Garrett) , up to the celebrations of the third centenary of Camoes death, in 1880 (being this the year when plays by Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim and Machado de Assis become known to the public). In what concerns Portugal, the 1870s are witnesses to the development of esthetical ideals of the Realism, with consequences to the configuration of the worship of Luís Vaz de Camões, used fictional and critically by Camilo Castelo Branco. Therefore, both in Brazil and Portugal, between 1825 and 1880, a specific treatment of Camoess image could be observed, initially idealized according to the Romantic values (plays written by Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho are examples), in a process that takes us to the definite consolidation of the myth towards Camoes in two countries connected by the colonial past and a common cultural tradition , as well.

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The present essay explores artworks of Karin Larsson through the feminist theoretical field of studies. The following three textile works were in the centre of the study, Kärlekens ros, Duk med tecken and Sashiko-gardin. The connection between japonisme, Japanese inspired art, and Karin Larssons art works were studied. Through feminist theories by art historians such as Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock the experience of being a woman in the 1800s affected the works of Karin Larsson were discussed. It was found that Karin Larssons upbringing and education as a woman differs from the usual male art student, which affected her art works. The subjects of her art works were also often the result of personal experiences. Furthermore, a correlation between the art works and Japanese woodblocks and Japanese embroidery techniques were identified.